Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hi,
> While it is obvious what is happening in $SUBJECT as well as > reasonably obvious why it can happen. What isn't obvious is what to > do about it. It seems we log in as a super user and drop the temp > tables. > > However, I would think if we know that it is orphaned that > autovacuum should just clean those up? As far as I recall, if you wait long enough it will drop them. Looking at the code: yes, it's forcibly dropped when it becomes a problem for xid wraparound. Of course, you can drop it as superuser as well; that will save you a few months of WARNING spam ... Cheers -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers